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This section explains how European theories about ‘race’ impact on popular ideas about
ethnic difference. This knowledge is important for the development of anti-racism messages.

What we learn from thinking about ‘race’
Remnants of old, disproved, Western ideas about ‘race’ are part of ordinary Pākehā talk
about Māori and other minority ethnic groups.
This includes the idea that –
• ‘Races’ are biologically distinct
[populations can be – evolution can proceed rapidly when populations live in challenging conditions]
• Behaviour and culture can be transmitted biologically
[This is old thinking that we are born with a blank slate – Evolutionary Psychology is on a roll]

• Pākehā culture is superior to indigenous and minority cultures
[Pakeha were once living in the stone age also (5000 years ago)]

• Darker-skinned people are closer to apes than White people.
[You said that, not me?]

The media’s use of the word ‘race’ and the justice system’s use of ‘Caucasian’ evoke these
discredited theories about race.
The division between the West, including New Zealand, and the ‘developing’ world is an
example of cultural racism.

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lurcher1948

Stuff ChCh getting a covered stadium lets roof the cake tin,its ALLWAYS auckland and christchurch,the best capital in the world is always overlooked,WELLINGTON the capital of New Zealand not a crowded cesspool or a ruined earthquake threatened sheep shaggers paradise,

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The U.S. has put together a STRONG bid w/ Canada & Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid. Why should we be supporting these countries when they don’t support us (including at the United Nations)?

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Gezza

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Gezza

I haven’t seen them do that, personally. The ones up your way must be quite well-educated. Mine can fly, I’ve seen them do that. They’re not much into gossip about you know who. What about the ones up your way? 😳

PDB

Gezza

Stay in the stream, I tell mine. Listen to your granddad. You got it good here. Stay off the road. Don’t go up the driveway. So far so good. They won’t go past my front trellis. Mind you, round here everybody pulls up & lets the ducks and ducklings and pooklets cross the road anyway.

Civilised folk in North Welly.

Gezza

And if you ever have to take the top of a chrome Methven Centique kitchen Mixer Tap to change the cartridge because the tap’s leaking from the top and when you get the grub screw out and go to lift the tap top off & it doesn’t just lift right off like it’s supposed to because the plasticky lug thingy on the old cartridge is now so completely cemented into the socket by feckin calcium deposits a bulldozer couldn’t pull it out & so you try to lever it out and it bloody snaps off & the plumbing supplies shop is useless for ideas – well you can drill the stuck bit out & that should work ok it did here. And if you wondered whether soaking the chrome tap top in white vinegar for a few hours will dissolve all the calcium concretions inside the tap top, well it does.